Around The State

November 9, 1985|By Deanne Brandon

For the third time this year, an oil company doing exploratory drilling off the coast of northwestern Florida has come up empty-handed. A spokesman for New Orleans-based U.S. Minerals Management Service said Thursday that Sohio Petroleum Co. plugged a well 26 miles south of Fort Walton Beach. Sohio and two other companies had paid $15.5 million for the right to do exploratory drilling.